Article March 11, 1950 Issue

GOD IS

THOMAS D. M. LATTA

It has been well said that no one, whatever he may call himself, is or can be an atheist. An atheist is one who denies the existence of God, and he who denies the existence of God, whether he knows it or not, denies his own existence. Being, or existence, postulates a cause. Descartes' "Je pense, done je suit" (I think, therefore I am), which this French philosopher propounded a little more than three hundred years ago, is a profound metaphysical truth. He might have gone further and said, "Mind is, therefore God is," but he did not. It remained for Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, through her writings, and particularly the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," to reveal fully and finally the true nature of God.

Mrs. Eddy had more than a passing acquaintance with the poets and philosophers of the world, but their theories and philosophies played no part in the presentation of the divine truth of God and man which she was destined to give to the world through reason, revelation, and demonstration. The truth that God is must likewise come to us through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration and not, in the words of Paul, "through philosophy and vain deceit" (Col. 2:8).

The coming of this truth is the dawn of true creation to human consciousness, dispelling the darkness of mortal sense and forever unfolding in ideas of God, Truth and Love. Writing in Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy says (p. 503), "Immortal and divine Mind presents the idea of God: first, in light; second, in reflection; third, in spiritual and immortal forms of beauty and goodness."